Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
STEMMA
lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock
(noun) the descendants of one individual; “his entire lineage has been warriors”
stemma
(noun) a tree diagram showing a reconstruction of the transmission of manuscripts of a literary work
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
stemma (plural stemmata or stemmas)
A family tree or recorded genealogy
In the study of stemmatics, a diagram showing the relationship of a text to its manuscripts
One of the types of simple eyes in arthropods
Source: Wiktionary
Stem"ma, n.; pl. Stemmata. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.) (a) One of the ocelli of an insect. See Ocellus. (b) One of the facets of a compound eye of any arthropod.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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